Teenage accomplice of rapist whose deportation from the UK was thwarted by plane passengers

Teenage accomplice of gang rapist whose deportation from the UK was thwarted by plane passengers fled the UK while out of prison on licence to join ISIS

Yaqub Ahmed, was on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey, when his deportation had to be abandoned

A dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off

They were unaware the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in a vicious gang rape of a teenage girl

By

Joe Middleton For Mailonline

Published:
09:19 BST, 14 October 2018

| Updated:
11:23 BST, 14 October 2018

Ondogo Ahmed, from north London, was found guilty of conspiracy to rape and disappeared from the UK whole out of prison on licence. He died in November 2013 fighting for ISIS in the city of Homs

The teenage accomplice of a gang rapist whose deportation was halted after plane passengers staged a mutiny, fled the UK while out of prison on licence to join ISIS.

Officials escorting Yaqub Ahmed on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey were forced to abandon his deportation when around a dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off.

The passengers who thought they were doing a good deed were unaware that the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in a vicious gang rape of a teenage girl.

And that another member of his gang, Ondogo Ahmed (pictured right), from north London, later fought for Islamic State in Syria after disappearing from the UK while out of prison on licence.

Ahmed, 18 at the time, was given an eight-year sentence for his part in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in a flat in Crouch End, London in August 2007.

He was released half way through his sentence and ISIS registration files reveal that Ahmed crossed into Syria via Turkey on 2 August 2013 and took the nom-de-guerre Abu Yusuf al-Britani.

Ahmed, who is of Eritrean descent, was found guilty of conspiracy to rape and was one of the four young men who were jailed for a total of 62 years.

He was the youngest member of the gang of four rapists, who lured a 16-year-old girl into a flat in Crouch End and raped her.

Passengers helped Ahmed get kicked off the plane as he resisted being deported by the Home Office after serving a prison sentence for gang rape

Stunned plane passengers turned around to witness the commotion at the rear of the flight

Following his disappearance, police released an appeal for information about his whereabouts on 6 November 2013.

‘Police in Islington are asking for help from members of the public to trace Ondogo Ahmed.

‘Ondogo Ahmed is wanted on recall to prison for breaching his licence conditions by associating with one of his co-defendants. He is believed to still be in the N7 area,’ the appeal read.

Ahmed and a fellow relative Bilal, were killed fighting for ISIS near the city of Homs on 10 November 2013, just over two months after joining the jihadi group.

He is thought to have been part of a group of at least five British men of Eritrean heritage from north London who have joined ISIS.

Yaqub Ahmed, 29, is one of a gang of rapists who brutally assaulted a young girl. The 16-year-old victim was gang-raped in a flat in New Orleans Walk in Crouch End on August 10

One of the key members is believed to be a British wannabe actor who fled to Syria and later starred in two ISIS propaganda videos.

Fasil Towalde, a 21-year-old student from Camden, London, was killed fighting in Kobane in 2014.

Towalde, of Eritrean heritage, was raised in a Christian family.

He converted to Islam when he was 16 and later travelled to Syria to join ISIS in December 2013.

The leaked ISIS documents confirm that Towalde entered Syria on 28 December 2013 and adopted the name Abu Abdullah al-Habashi.

Meanwhile Yaqub Ahmed is now believed to be in an immigration detention centre while officials try to place him on another flight out of the UK.

But this process could take months particularly if his lawyers use his temporary reprieve as an opportunity to appeal against his deportation.

He was released from prison after serving little more than four years, and lived in a halfway house in North London until recently.

Because he had been jailed for such a serious crime, the Home Office ordered his deportation, which led to him being placed on the flight to Istanbul last Tuesday afternoon.

He received a temporary reprieve because of the impromptu intervention of passengers.